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From conkers to marbles, from British Bulldog to tag, not forgetting 'one potato, two potato' and 'eeny, meeny, miny, mo', The Lore of the Playground looks at the games children have enjoyed, the rhymes they have chanted and the rituals and traditions they have observed over the past hundred years and more.

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Manchester's town hall and its Royal Exchange epitomise the city's architectural grandeur and its industrial heritage. This title relates the remarkable and diverse history of this England's second city, covering various areas of human activity and incorporating the events and key moments in the city's history.

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This book illuminates the history of one of Manchesters most influential families. Charting the lives of Henry, Emily, Ernest and Shena Simon, it demonstrates their significance through tracing their work in engineering innovation, enriching Manchesters civic culture, and in shaping local government, housing and education.

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This deeply researched book offers a unique history of Londons most famous street, from the Roman era to the present day.

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From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Assassination Vacation" and "The Partly Cloudy Patriot" comes an examination of the Puritans, their covenant communities, deep-rooted idealism, political and cultural relevance, and their myriad oddities.

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Fully updated and revised this new edition includes recent developments in Caribbean genealogy research including guidance on archives that are now available online and how to find, and accurately search, newly released information.

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This book will help you get the most out of your Ancestry.com subscription by showing you how to take advantage of what the world's biggest genealogy website has to offer--and how to find answers to your family tree questions within its billions of records and massive network of family trees.

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Discover how to use FamilySearch.org! Learn how to tackle the largest free genealogy website with this in-depth user guide, newly updated to reflect the site's latest developments.

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Collection of folklore, poetry and true accounts of outback pioneering graves, illustrated with many photographs from the period.

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Drawn together from hundreds of hours of first-hand interviews, Working Lives is a unique collection of oral testimonies from workers whose stories might not otherwise have been told: mill girls who risked life and limb in dusty, noisy weaving sheds;

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This book is both a guide and a history, exploring the curious and entertaining glories of Oxford through two of the most famous fantasies in world literature.

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From 1918 to the modern day, Roger Hutchinson tells the story of the Stornoway Trust, and of the people who guided their pioneering estate into the relative security and prosperity of the 21st century. In doing so he paints a vivid portrait of a unique landholding experiment, of Highland land struggle and of the island of Lewis itself.

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Putting archive and contemporary photographs of the same landmark side-by-side, Brooklyn Then and Now provides a visual chronicle of the city's past, full of rich history and culture.

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Traces how social change transformed Scotland from the 1970s, expressed through politics, culture and identity.

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Traces how social change transformed Scotland from the 1970s, expressed through politics, culture and identity.

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(Paperback, 70th Anniversary Edition)

This is the story of the upland, rural community of Glenesk, told from the perspectives of the people themselves and covers many aspects of glen life. The book looks at people's changing relationships with the landscape, the buildings they lived, worked and worshipped in, and the tools they used.

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This is the first book to highlight this major episode in Glasgow's history, which has been largely forgotten and yet lies at the heart of the rights of way movement in Scotland. Glasgow's citizens to defended their right of passage along the north bank of the Clyde, which served the interests and enthusiasms of ordinary working people.

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Presents the rich history of a Caithness estate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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